Latest announcements around Deprecations and changes from 2021 release wave 2 onwards

Microsoft has made some important announcements regarding deprecations and changes in their Power Platform, specifically Power Apps, Power Automate, and CE apps starting from the 2021 release wave 2. The full details can be found in this article. Some of the changes were expected, whereas others came as a surprise. Here's a summary:

Expected Changes:

• Legacy web client
• IE 11 support for D365 and Power platform
• D365 for Outlook (addin)
• D365 app for Windows
• D365 for BlackBerry
• D365 Home url

Features:

• Voice of the customer
• Parature - knowledge base
• Announcements
• Mail merge
• Relationship Roles
• Task Flows
• Process Dialogs
• Company News timeline

Model driven apps - Forms related:

• Footer
• Low density header

Canvas apps:

• Rules
• D365 connector

Customizations:

• Client APIs
• Legacy BPF attributes
• Regional Discovery service
• TimezoneRule entity and TimezoneDefinition entity (few attributes)

Developers:

• Client APIs
• Silverlight (xap) web resource
• Office365 auth type
• OrganizationServiceProxy class

Misc:

• D365 Sales Bot
• AI builder Text classification models
• AI builder Form processing and Object detection preview models

Overall, these changes signal a shift in Microsoft's approach to their Power Platform, and it's important for users to take note of the upcoming deprecations and plan accordingly.

The full article can be found here.